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ECR Newsletter - October 2024
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GW4 Crucible 2025 - Deadline for Expressions of Interest - Wednesday 16 October 2024.
Are you a researcher with an interest or expertise in Creative Societies and Cultures?
Creativity is at the heart of our society and culture. It has impact, functionality and relevance that reaches beyond the arts and helps us make sense of the rapidly changing world around us – from geopolitics to education, from international law to popular culture, from social policy to the natural environment. Yet, we live in an era where creativity, the arts, and humanities are increasingly undervalued and underfunded, and where what even counts as ‘creativity’ is challenged by AI.
This leadership development programme offers the opportunity for early career researchers across a broad range of disciplines to come together to create innovative, multifaceted responses to the question of creativity’s place and shape in our society, culture and economy, while developing as a researcher, collaborator, and leader. From film to law, creative writing to archaeology, modern languages to social and political sciences, if you are a researcher with an interest in or expertise applicable to any aspect of creative societies and cultures, we want to hear from you!
For further information about GW4 Crucible 2025 and to discuss the application process, contact Dr Chris Wood (c.b.wood@exeter.ac.uk), Head of Researcher Development and Research Culture, University of Exeter.
You can hear more about the programme from past participants here.
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Research Staff Development Programme
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Learning and Development Opportunities: University of Exeter and Beyond
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Digital Humanities- Discussion Groups and Mixer Event
The Digital Humanities team is pleased to invite you to two fortnightly discussion groups and their first Digital HASS Mixer.
The Humanities and AI Forum is a fortnightly opportunity to discuss the latest ideas and developments in anything related to the intersection of these fields.
The Humanities Space and Place Forum is your fortnightly chance to share ideas and practice on the intersection between Geography and the Humanities. While there is regular interest in the application of technologies in this space, recommendations for any related topic are welcome.
The discussion groups will be held online on alternate Wednesdays between 3.30 pm - 4.30 pm.
Digital HASS Mixer
Tuesday 15 October (4 pm)
Streatham Campus, Digital Humanities Lab Seminar Room 1
Join us at the Digital Humanities Lab for an informal opportunity to catch up and meet new colleagues working on digital topics across HASS. Snacks and drinks will be provided. Colleagues from ESE and HLS with related interests are greatly welcomed too. If interest is high, we hope to make this a termly event, so please RSVP if you can't make it this time but would like to come in future.
To RSVP your attendance for the mixer and to sign up for the discussion groups please email digitalhumanities@exeter.ac.uk.
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Are Race and Religion on the 2024 Ballot?
Wednesday 16 October 2024 (5 pm - 7 pm)
Streatham Campus, Queen's LT1
The Societies & Cultures Institute (SCI) invites you to join The Reverend Professor Keith Magee as he discusses the 2024 US elections and the impact of race and religion on our politics. Keith will also be talking about his latest book, Prophetic Justice: Race, Religion & Politics, which will be followed by a book signing.
Keith Magee is a public intellectual, theologian, and social justice scholar. He is Senior Fellow and Visiting Professor of Practice in Cultural Justice at University College London (UCL) Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose.
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Emotionally Challenging Research: impacts, coping and proactive interventions to support researchers
Wednesday 30 October 2024 (12 noon - 3.30 pm) - Online
and repeated again on:
Wednesday 19 February 2025 (9 am - 12.30 pm) - Online
Join Tina Skinner of the Researcher Wellbeing Project, funded by the UKRI Research England Research Culture Fund, and equip yourself and/or your team/organisation with knowledge and tools essential for maintaining emotional wellbeing in research on emotionally challenging topics. By participating in this webinar, you will:
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Gain a deeper understanding of the potential impacts of emotionally challenging research.
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Learn about effective individual, team and institutional supports to navigate these challenges.
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Start to develop your own Researcher Wellbeing Plan.
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Understand how to undertake a risk assessment linked to mental health impacts.
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Be equipped to start developing a strategic approach to researcher wellbeing on emotionally challenging topics in your team/institution.
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ECR Representative Committee
Thursday 24 October 2024 (9.30 am - 11 am) - Online
ECRs are welcome to join the next online Representative Committee meeting which is an opportunity for ECRs to have their voices heard and to raise issues that can be brought to higher University committee for deliberation. This meeting is also an opportunity to hear about what the University is doing for ECRs. If you wish to attend email researcherdevelopment@exeter.ac.uk for the joining link.
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Mid-Career Researcher Training Programme - Registration deadline extended to 18 October 2024.
4 Part course taking place on:
7, 14, 21 & 28 November 2024 (all 11 am 1 pm) - 0nline
Building on last year’s RAIL (Rethink; Attain; Include; Lived experience) Report on the challenges facing Mid-Career Researchers (MCRs), the University of Exeter will be running a training programme to develop the skills and knowledge of Mid-Career Researchers to enable them to succeed in their careers. This training is run by Professor Kelly Pickard-Smith and Professor Amy Bonsall. Kelly and Amy are humanities PhD holders and are honorary professors at the University of Kent, award-winning academic charity directors and long-time champions of Mid-Career Researchers.
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Standing Up for Science Edinburgh Workshop
Friday 1 November 2024 - in-person
University of Edinburgh
Sense about Science will be running a FREE, practical, and interactive Standing up for Science workshop for Early Career Researchers (ECRs) on Friday 1 November, in-person, at the University of Edinburgh. The workshop aims to build the confidence and skills of ECRs to engage in the public discourse around science, research, and the research process.
Hear from researchers further along in their careers about their experiences, good and bad, of working with the media and policy worlds, from experienced media and policy professionals about how their worlds work and what they need from scientists to operate effectively, and receive tools and insights on how best to communicate some of the most complex issues of science and evidence.
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Overcoming Imposter Feelings - Support for Researchers
Friday 15 November 2024 (9.15 am - 12.45 pm) Online.
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Do you sometimes feel you are not clever/qualified enough?
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Constantly struggling with self-doubt?
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Ever thought your success was down to luck rather than your ability?
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Are you scared that one day your colleagues will find you out as a fraud?
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Do you want to understand imposter feelings so that you can support your colleagues and teams better?
If you are asking yourself these questions you might be grappling with Imposter Feelings.
Take heart, you are not on your own and there are ways to thrive despite it! Want to build confidence, maximise your potential and finally feel `good enough'? Want to learn more so that you can support colleagues? Join this interactive zoom workshop that will equip you with evidence-based knowledge about imposter feelings and some techniques to help you flourish. In a confidential and supportive space, we will consider what it is actually, where it comes from and which groups of people are more likely to suffer from it.
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Tuesday 19 November 2024 (2 pm - 4.30 pm) Online
As we progress through our careers, we almost inevitably will take on more leadership responsibility; whether that be deciding on the next path to take individually, influencing one other person or leading a team, group, department or organisation. This focused, online event, created especially for Research Staff will help you start to understand what leadership is, how you can lead authentically and how to get the best from the people around you. The session will aim to provide you with a practical toolkit of models and techniques and will be responsive to your needs and questions.
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Impact Strategies, Successes and Setbacks: How to track your research impact, tell compelling impact stories, and adapt when things don’t go as anticipated
Wednesday 4 December 2024 (2.30 pm - 4.30 pm)
Streatham Campus, Forum Seminar Room 10 + MS Teams (hybrid)
This workshop, tailored for HASS colleagues, is hosted by the University of Exeter’s Impact Community of Practice and facilitated by ICoP Steering Group chair Professor Susannah Cornwall. We will hear from two of Exeter’s HASS REF2021 impact case study leads, Professor Jana Funke and Professor Joe Kember, who will share their experiences of
generating and tracking research impact, and how to adapt when things don’t go quite as planned. Dr Sanja Djerasimovic will discuss strategies for developing engaged and impactful research and ensuring that evidence of your research impact isn’t lost along the way. Whether you’re new to learning about research impact or well on your way to writing an impact case study, come and share your questions, ideas and experiences in a supportive peer-to-peer setting. For more information or queries, email impact@exeter.ac.uk. Sign up for the ICoP Mailing list here.
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'Focus Space' - Improve Your Productivity!
We would like to give you a warm welcome to our regular 'Focus Space' online sessions which run from 10 am - 12.30 pm Mondays and Thursdays - Click here for dates and details of how to join this group. Participants do not have to stay for the whole session - you can dip in and out as you please! To make things easy, these sessions, open to staff researchers, from Early Career Researchers onwards, can be accessed via the same Teams link.
We are looking to expand our team of facilitators so if you would like to find out more about becoming a facilitator please contact ResearcherDevelopment@exeter.ac.uk. Facilitating is considered part of 'teaching practice' for Fellowship levels of the Higher Education Academy!
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Collaboration Opportunity for those whose research features biodiversity
Does your research feature biodiversity?
This could be in any of its definitions, connected to many topics such as food, climate change, business and education. Frankie from the University of Exeter Business School, would like to develop an opportunity for cross discipline discussion on biodiversity in all its different definitions. If you’re interested, please email F.Boyd4@exeter.ac.uk with a summary of your work or the biodiversity connection.
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Ageing the Living and the Dead: New Baseline for Age Estimation from Dental Wear
PhD student Tereza Nesnidalova, invites you to participate in their PhD project ‘Ageing the Living and the Dead: New Baseline for Age Estimation from Dental Wear’.
Tereza is looking for volunteers over the age of 30 who have spent most of their lives in the UK, who have no severe dental misalignments. Taking part would involve answering a short questionnaire about yourself, after which a scan of your teeth using a digital dental scanner would be performed. The whole procedure would take about 15 minutes. You will also be provided with a copy of your 3D digital dental scan!
If you have any questions about the project, please email Tereza (tn354@exeter.ac.uk). To sign up, click on the button below.
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Research Grants, Funding & Competitions
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Nuffield Foundation/POST Fellowship for PhD Students in Natural and Social Sciences
Deadline: Sunday 20 October 2024
PhD students and recent PhD graduates in any natural or social sciences are invited to apply for a fully funded 13-week fellowship in UK Parliament, supporting its use of research evidence. This is a great opportunity to see how Parliament works up close!
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Andrew Cunliffe has created this Funding Finder platform which signposts hundreds of funding opportunities that will be of interest to current community members looking to undertake research, fieldwork, conference visits or exchanges with our partner organisations worldwide. It has easily searchable listings and awards ranging from £100 to £10,000,000.
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Making research assessment fairer – find out how you can communicate your research achievements in a compelling way without relying on metrics
Wednesday 13 November 2024 (9.30 am - 10.30 am) Online
repeated on
Tuesday 18 March 2025 (2 pm - 3 pm) - Online.
Universities, research teams, and individual researchers all want their research achievements and capabilities to be recognised fairly. Increasingly ‘metrics’ - quantitative indicators, like journal impact factors or university rankings – have become the go-to proxies for assessing research quality and scientific contributions. But metrics can also misrepresent and disadvantage researchers, distorting the work they choose to do, or where they choose to publish it, and holding back careers or whole disciplines.
Led by Professor Rob Anderson, Chair of our Responsible Metrics Champions group, we are running two interactive online workshops which will explore what responsible metrics are and how you can communicate your research achievements in a compelling way, whilst also avoiding some of the common traps associated with less responsible research assessment.
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Research & Researcher Networks
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Calling all Exeter-based members of the British Academy Early Career Researcher Network!
Deadline to register interest : Monday 14 October 2024.
Earlier this year, Exeter won a bid to co-lead (with Bath Spa) the South-West/South Wales cluster of the British Academy Early Career Researcher Network. The first event organised in this new iteration of the Network will be a full day workshop in Bath to facilitate ECR-led design of a programme of events for the cluster for the new academic year and beyond. The workshop will be followed by a social event, and BA are kindly covering all travel and accommodation expenses for the attendees.
If you are a member of the BA ECRN and would like to come along, please contact Sanja Djerasimovic (s.djerasimovic@exeter.ac.uk), by 14 October to indicate your interest. Places are limited and will be allocated on a first come-first served basis.
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Tuesday 15 October 2024
Penryn Campus, Peter Lanyon Staff Room (2.30 pm)
Join for an extra-special Fika delivered by Victoria Grimberg, founder of Fikanista.
Originally from Sweden, Victoria will be sharing the history of this delightful tradition and will be bringing her homemade Swedish Gooey Chocolate Cake! And with National Cinnamon Roll Day falling on October 4th, we will also be spoiling you with freshly baked Swedish cinnamon buns 🥧
Brought to you by the Cornwall Wellbeing Network.
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Wednesday 16 October 2024 (12 noon - 1 pm) - Hybrid
Streatham Campus, Forum Library Foyer and Online
We are excited to share with you our upcoming fika event!
Fikanista, Victoria Grimberg, will be providing you with a talk about what fika is, how important fika is in the Swedish culture and you will be able to experience an authentic Swedish fika. This will be a hybrid event via Teams, and we are excited to be joined by colleagues in Penryn!
Take a break, bring a colleague of yours and come along to connect with staff across the University. You will be treated to tea, coffee and biscuits. Victoria will also bake and bring Swedish Gooey Chocolate cake! What is fika? Fika roughly translates from Swedish as drinking coffee, munching sweet treats and chatting.
Fika ...
☕️ Provides a moment to pause and relax.
☕️ Improves staff wellbeing.
☕️ Creates a routine and provides balance.
☕️ Improves your productivity.
☕️ Cultivates a sense of community and belonging.
☕️ Improves colleagues' connection, trust and team morale.
You can find out more about the Wellbeing Network here. If you would like to join our Team's site and be added to our mailing list, please fill in this form to join the network.
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Black History Month Celebration - Afro-Latin Dance Class & Social!
Thursday 24 October 2024 (5 pm - 7 pm)
Venue: Upper Stannary, Penryn
Entry Fee: £2
To celebrate Black History Month, join us for a one-hour Afro-Latin dance class on salsa and merengue followed by a one-hour open dance social with music and refreshments!
Salsa and merengue are typically two-person (of mixed or same gender) partnered dances, but can be performed with solo movements therefore individuals who prefer dancing alone are very welcome - no partner required!
The event will begin with an hour of dance tuition, followed by a social hour of music so that you can practice your new moves.
Spaces are limited so sign up is essential!
Brought to you by the Cornwall Wellbeing Network.
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✨Meditation Course for Staff and PGRs!
First session: Tuesday 5 November 2024
Final session: Tuesday 3 December 2024
Time: 2.15 pm
Venue: Sports Centre studio
Following its popularity earlier in the year, the Cornwall Wellbeing Network is once again running a 5-week meditation course in collaboration with local yoga and meditation teacher, Andrew Bellamy of One Seat Meditation & Yoga. Staff and postgraduate students on the Cornwall Campuses can sign up for the heavily reduced price of £5 per course (that’s just £1 per class!). Following feedback from the last course, classes will now be running at the later time of 2:15pm. Enquiries to nh510@exeter.ac.uk
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Exeter Food Research Network: Public Lecture from Michael Caines MBE
Tuesday 26 November (7 pm)
Streatham Campus, The Forum, Alumni Auditorium
The Exeter Food Research Network are pleased to invite you to a public lecture by Michael Caines, a globally renowned Michelin-starred chef and restaurateur from Exeter. The lecture is titled 'Transforming the Menu: How rediversifying and rebalancing what we eat can lead to a more sustainable, more secure food system'.
In this talk, Michael will draw upon his vast experience to address some of the most pressing challenges in the food world today, from the loss of biodiversity in the natural environments upon which our food depends, to wastefulness in our food culture.
The lecture is open to students and staff- please share with your colleagues and networks.
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Exeter Research Networks are interdisciplinary research groupings that operate across University structures, campuses and disciplinary boundaries. They represent key strengths in areas where we aspire to grow recognition both nationally and internationally. Spanning a breadth of disciplines, our networks welcome researchers and research-enabling staff across all career levels and enable researchers to be brought together to tackle challenges on a local, national, and global level. Find out more on our website about the networks currently operating and how to join them. Contact researchnetworks@exeter.ac.uk
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Research & Researcher Blogs
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Organising an Event & Need Help?
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Health, Wellbeing & Support
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Find out how the University can support Early Career Researchers. The page includes support from the University, Spectrum.Life as well as a list of networks to support staff wellbeing.
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